‘People in their thirties are becoming more critical when it comes to health,’ says program maker Vera Verzijl right at the start of her PowNed program.30 and never again…. to a doctor‘. To then substantiate her statement by only letting quacks speak, without adding any healthy comments. Very bad journalism!
The PowNed health program broadcast on NPO1 on August 10 – episode four in a five part thirties series – is a misleading, cringeworthy display. In rapid succession, patients with a serious condition, MS and an unstable spine, were allowed to say that they could not be helped in the Netherlands (announcement: due to ‘lagging behind’ medical knowledge) and then googling on the internet to expensive, foreign – unpaid – quacks. to end up: at a stem cell clinic in Mexico and for the third time (twice without satisfactory results? – ed.) at a neurosurgeon in Barcelona (no medical publication to his name, not even for his ‘miracle’ operation: fixing on spine). A comment from an MS neurologist or an expert neurosurgeon (there are many in the Netherlands) from the regular circuit is not heard by the viewer.
Doctors who practice quackery inspire confidence
Furthermore, a number of alternative therapists, including even BIG-registered doctors, are allowed to talk about immune system ‘strengthening’ ice baths, healing breathing techniques and about healthy primal diets in combination with nutritional supplements. A simple phone call to someone in serious science would have raised at least two frowns and critical notes. Most debited health claims have no scientific basis. Doctors who practice quackery are the worst: because of their medical title they inspire confidence in their patients, doctors in particular should therefore know better.
And then we leave out the natural medicine student who talks to plants, who also studies alchemy (!) and has a laboratory at home where she makes medicines from plants for all kinds of complaints, for the sake of convenience. She only brings home dandelions that sway with the wind and tell her they want to go. A skeptical/cynical smile will suffice. Is this the ‘new’ science of the thirties?
Certificate from controversial Wim Hof
We are talking here, among other things, about claims made by the cardiologist who is no longer practicing Remco Kuipers – seen in the broadcast in a white doctor’s coat – and from a doctor Monique Tjon-a-Tsien from Wateringen in South Holland. The latter likes to call herself an ice doctor, after all she was trained – and even received a certificate for it – by ice man Wim Hof, a former stuntman who is dripping with quackery. has also been certified since 2019 transformational breath-coacha technique that regulates something vague: connection.
Kuipers and Hof are old acquaintances of the Association against quackery. In 2014 we wrote about Hof’s strange cold-weather hats. For your information: the Dutch cold guru has a claim in the US from 67 million dollars due to the death of a 17-year-old girl after a cold water/breathing session, according to Hof. In 2015 we also wrote on this website about primal diet believer Remko Kuipers because of his (orthomolecular) supplement preference. PowNed program maker Vera Verzijl has not read the pieces on this website, she does not mention them in her uncritical program.
After his registration in the specialist register, Kuipers worked for a short time as a cardiologist at the Dijklanderziekenhuis in Hoorn. That was not a success because after 15 months he left there to give up his active cardiologist career (put ‘np’ after his name) and started a start-up in preventive medicine in 2023. The fact that he obtained his PhD in 2022 with Frits Muskiet, a biochemistry professor who also teaches orthomolecular medicine, has already raised many an eyebrow. The trade edition of Kuipers’ remarkable dissertation contains a jubilant review by slimming guru ‘Dokter Frank’. With friends like that you don’t need enemies anymore.
Ice doctor Tjon-a-Tsien, general practitioner since 2000 and over the years slipped to breathing coach and cold therapist, has not yet been given a place in the trio of quacks on this website.
Integrative Medicine
Tjon-a-Tsien is founder of the IJsdokter Health Clinic. For the past year she has been a board member of the Academy for Integrative Medicine (AIM), an organization of alternative people often mentioned on this website. In the PowNed broadcast she talks about ‘cold water as medicine’. A teacher taught her “bucket pouring in the morning” to cope with her depression and to avoid taking medication. Ice water, in combination with a specific breathing therapy, can contribute to healing, says Tjon-a-Tsien, adding that this statement is ‘short sighted’. In any case, the well-being will improve, reports the ice doctor.
Her activities within the AIM organization do not bode well. Tjon-a-Tsien has been on the AIM board for a year now and is working on the ‘quality and innovation’ of medical education. On her Linkedin page she talks about ‘the general practitioner of the future’, after which she writes: ‘I think body & mindfulness, homeopathy, TCM, anthroposophy enrich the general practice’. Brrr…. it’s all quackery.
PowNed program maker Verzijl does not respond to two e-mails from the web editors, even though the question asked in it is so simple: why she only showed quackery as proof that people in their 30s view health differently.
2023-08-19 15:47:29
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